October 8th: Watch “Expand the Inquiry!” A public event will take place in Vancouver on Saturday, October 8th, 6:30PM – 9:30PM PDT, featuring UBC Professor of Political Science Adam Jones, who has launched a petition calling for a gender-inclusive Inquiry, and BC Indigenous leader and author Chief Ernie Crey. The event will take place at Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre at 515 West Hastings Street and be available online by live streamingMore information here.

CAFE Halifax held its Necktie Campaign on National Aboriginal Day (June 21, 2016) at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center in Halifax, in conjunction with a National Aboriginal Day celebration. The venue was at full capacity, with approximately 250 attendees. Debbie Eisan, administrator of the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center, is adding neckties to the Centre’s auditorium, and keep them on display indefinitely. Lori Walton, the National Vice President for Equity at the Public Service Alliance of Canada, is doing a Tie Drive among the PSAC membership to collect the ties needed for the permanent Necktie Campaign. We would like to express my deepest gratitude to Debbie Eisan, Lori Walton, and all of the great people at the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Center and the Public Service Alliance of Canada for helping us to make the Necktie Campaign a great success.

Lydia Daniels, who is from Long Plain First Nation in Manitoba, came up with the necktie concept after being inspired by the Red Cloth Ribbons Memorial campaign that was started to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women. CAFE is proud to join Ms. Daniels’ initiative and to have her support as we launch a series of events in various parts of the country.

Join our press conference Thurday, March 31st at 11:00am local time in Toronto and Edmonton.
Toronto: Canadian Centre for Men and Families at 152 Carlton St.
Edmonton: Ezio Faraone Park (West side of the north end of the Highlevel bridge).
Manitoba: Lydia Daniels, who initiated this campaign, will support these events by hanging neckties

Victoria Island, Ottawa/Hull: Kevin Daniels, Interim National Chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples joined a delegation including representatives of the Confederation of Aboriginal People of Ontario and Quebec, Grand Chief Thomas Square and Grand Chief Roger Fleury and Sue Martin of Home Fires Burning and others supporting the Neck Tie Campaign for Missing and Murdered Men and young boys. Since April 2015, Sue Martin has been in vigil, praying for a National Inquiry for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and girls. The delegation hang neck ties in a path leading to the Dept. of Indigenous Affairs in Hull and a representative of the Minister came down to accept their gift.

Hang a necktie on March 31, 2016 in support of the campaign started by Lydia Daniels, whose son, Colten Pratt, is missing. Join your local CAFE branch (see details below) or hang neckties with friends in your own community. Take pictures and share them with your friends and with us by emailing them to: info@equalitycanada.com

Sign this petition “For a Gender-Inclusive Inquiry into Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Canadians”